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Undefended Love |
Jett Psaris was born in New Jersey
and was encouraged from an early age
to pursue a career in business. After
completing her undergraduate degree
at Georgetown University, she moved to
the west coast to seek her fortune. She
joined a startup company, Osborne
Computer Corporation, leading its sales
and marketing efforts from a negative
cash flow to over one hundred million
dollars in a little less than two years.
During this time Jett was interviewed
on 60 Minutes and by many of the
major network stations.
Six months after leaving Osborne, while starting her own company, Osborne filed Chapter 13: In one short month, Jett's net worth went from over twelve million dollars to a negative half million. She was 27 years old. While scrambling for several years to pay off her debts, Jett completed an MBA at Pepperdine University, she helped start a number of successful companies and worked for venture capitalists as a turnaround expert. At the age of 32, exhausted, discouraged and free of debt, she took a year off to examine what had led her to lose everything she had worked so hard to create.
In the process of painstakingly questioning each and every belief she held to be true, Jett discovered an inner world, vast and unexplored, and set out to chart this unknown territory. As part of this process she completed a Ph.D. in Psychology from Summit University, and joined forces with Marlena Lyons, offering workshops and seminars to other seekers on the path of self-knowledge. The maps contained within Undefended Love are those of a faithful cartographer, struggling to understand the steps to living an emotionally liberated life, within herself and with another. They also reflect over ten years working with individuals, couples and groups of people committed to living and loving in an unconditional and undefended way.
Marlena S. Lyons was born in Cairo,
Egypt, of French-Egyptian descent, and
lived there until the age of eleven when
the political climate no longer favored
those of European background. As her
extended family scattered to Western
Europe and Canada and her immediate
family emigrated to the United States she
felt her community shatter.
Arriving in America from another country, she was seen as exotic but "foreign." Her sense of being different produced a feeling of being special but not belonging. She was a girl with two countries, but no home. Her early attraction to psychology came out of her desire to repair the splintered world of her childhood to return to a sense of wholeness and union. Since she could not live with her people, she had to find the strength to be herself among strangers.
Ultimately she learned that in discovering herself she felt at home everywhere. In the course of her self-exploration, she completed a Masters degree (from San Jose State University) and Ph.D. (from Sierra University) in Clinical Psychology. In private practice since 1979, Marlena has helped individuals and couples see the difficulties of their lives as rites of passage, initiating them into ever deeper layers of their being. Through groups, workshops and writing, she has taken this message to a broader audience. The goal of her life's work has been to guide others to discover their inner resources and to recover the joy and innocence that has been covered up or overlooked. She helps them fulfill the promise of finally coming home.